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The Song Machine: How to Make a Hit
John Seabrook
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Description for The Song Machine: How to Make a Hit
Paperback. How do you make a song a global smash hit that is guaranteed to make $millions? In this book, the author dissects the workings of this machine, travelling the world to reveal its hidden formulas, and interview its geniuses - 'the hitmakers' - at the centre of it all. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: AVGP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 24. Weight in Grams: 296.
How do you make a song into a global smash hit that is guaranteed to make millions? Read The Song Machine and find out! From Tin Pan Alley and Motown to Rihanna and Taylor Swift, manufactured music has existed since the record industry began. But who are the hit-manufacturers that can create a tune that is so catchy, so wildly addictive, that it sticks in the minds of millions of listeners? In The Song Machine, John Seabrook dissects the workings of this machine, travelling the world to reveal its hidden formulas, and interview its geniuses - `the hitmakers' - at the centre of it all. Hilarious and jaw-droppingly shocking, this book will change how you think and feel about music, as well as how you listen to it. `Revelatory, funny, and full of almost unbelievable details', Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation `As addictive as its subject' Sunday Times
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099590453
SKU
V9780099590453
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99-99
About John Seabrook
John Seabrook has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 1993. The author of several books including Nobrow, he has taught narrative non-fiction writing at Princeton University. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Reviews for The Song Machine: How to Make a Hit
Revelatory, funny, and full of almost unbelievable details
Eric Schlosser, author of 'Fast Food Nation' As addictive as its subject
Sunday Times
A gripping investigation of modern hitmaking... Seabrook's writing is as sleek and swift as a dolphin
New Statesman
This is a fascinating tale about an amazing phenomenon
Walter Isaacson, author of 'Steve Jobs' Seabrook subtly explores not only the insides of a song, but how a song gets inside us
Observer
Revealing, frightening, funny and unsettling
Roddy Doyle Seabrook's book takes the reader into a hidden world behind some of the most high-profile cultural products of the era
Guardian
A highly engaging narrative
Economist
Weaving its way through two-and-a-half decades, one of The Song Machine's greatest achievements is to situate the pop song within a shifting matrix of technological evolution, diminishing revenue streams, and warring egos
Independent
Seabrook takes us on a lucid and well-researched tour of the places where modern hits are created
Peter Clark
Literary Review
Eric Schlosser, author of 'Fast Food Nation' As addictive as its subject
Sunday Times
A gripping investigation of modern hitmaking... Seabrook's writing is as sleek and swift as a dolphin
New Statesman
This is a fascinating tale about an amazing phenomenon
Walter Isaacson, author of 'Steve Jobs' Seabrook subtly explores not only the insides of a song, but how a song gets inside us
Observer
Revealing, frightening, funny and unsettling
Roddy Doyle Seabrook's book takes the reader into a hidden world behind some of the most high-profile cultural products of the era
Guardian
A highly engaging narrative
Economist
Weaving its way through two-and-a-half decades, one of The Song Machine's greatest achievements is to situate the pop song within a shifting matrix of technological evolution, diminishing revenue streams, and warring egos
Independent
Seabrook takes us on a lucid and well-researched tour of the places where modern hits are created
Peter Clark
Literary Review